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AI toys are all the rage in China—and now they’re appearing on shelves in the US too
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this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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Yes, let's fund large companies profiling our children from infancy! What a fantastic idea! /s
Christ, China always had the wrong idea with their social credit score -- the implementation was too overt. Zukerberg - the shit - had it right. It's easy to make people pay for their own prison.
We're all blithering idiots, apparently.
gotta move fast to win AI race 👀
It's genuinely depressing how often I see that sentiment expressed with 100% sincerity over on LinkedIn. I've muted more Connections in the last year than in the whole of the previous decade, just to stop myself from inevitably posting a professionally limiting comment.
Richard Feynman once asked: Don't you have time to think?
And people in power, politicians, used car salesmen and other shysters read about that and thought: "ideally they do not, no."